In the latest news from Iran, the Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi has stated, that the country is working on its own satellite launch program. Iran is looking to launch into space a number of its indigenously built satellites very soon. He said “Currently, we are building new satellites and soon, in the near future, some of them will be launched into space”.

Iran is scheduled to launch its second indigenous satellite the Rasad 1 (Observation Satellite) into space by August 2011. Their first satellite to be launched into space was the Omid (Hope) in the 2009. Iran has strictly started to develop and research into its own technology at a very high speed, and this is something that has left the west worrying.

Vahidi claimed that the nike air max pas cher country is building its own missile similar to the S-300 missile. The S-300 missile is Russian missile and Russia abruptly halted its supply to Iran, because of the latest UN sanctions over Tehran. In context to the S-300 missile, Mr. Vahidi said “The production of the S-300 missile is now being pursued by domestic experts. The production is in the design process.”